Tax cuts, tax cuts, gut some regulations—oh, and more tax cuts. Tax cuts when times are good, tax cuts when times are bad.

This should be the Republican position on taxes, but we are not fortunate enough to have Republicans with such good sense. And, of course, there need to be at least twice as many spending reductions as tax cuts. And then more spending cuts and gutted regulatory agencies.

What are so many people so blind to the urgent need for radical reductions in the size, scope, and spending of our government?